Eddie Boyd with Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac

7936 South Rhodes

Blues pianist Eddie Boyd’s 7936 South Rhodes was recorded in London
in January 1968 with three members of the early line-up of Fleetwood Mac:
Peter Green (guitar), John McVie (bass), and Mick Fleetwood (drums). It’s a
tantalizing setting for Boyd’s straight up Chicago piano Blues, going heavier on
the slow-to-mid-tempo numbers than the high-spirited ones.
During the Sixties’ Blues revival, Boyd toured Europe with Buddy Guy’s band,
and he toured and recorded with Fleetwood Mac and John Mayall and the
Bluesbreakers. Tired of the racial discrimination he experienced in the United
States, he first moved to Belgium where he recorded with Dutch Blues band
Cuby & The Blizzards. Boyd died in 1994 in Helsinki, Finland, just a few months
before Eric Clapton released the chart-topping blues album, From The Cradle
that included Boyd’s “Five Long Years” and “Third Degree”.